SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: ADAMS, Franklin B.  
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         PIONEER, WHO PLAYED WITH REDS DIES AT AGE OF 82 

Franklin B. Adams, Oldest Resident of Porter, Van Buren County, Last One of
the Early Settlers

Lawton, Mich.,, June 6.- Franklin B. Adams, aged 85 years, the oldest
pioneer of Porter, Van Buren county, died at his home in Porter at five 
o'clock in the morning, June 4. Mr. Adams is the last of the early settlers 
of this part of the country.

He came here with his parents in the early winter of 1837 before the state
was admitted.

When he was a boy of nine years of age the old Ohio farm home was sold. The
payment being made in the heavy coins of the time, and of low value, the
money was weighed insted of counted and was put in two grain sacks and 
loaded in a covered wagon and the family started for Michigan. About seven 
miles west of the present village of Schoolcraft in the heart of the forest 
the family found an old abandoned log hut in which they wintered, in the 
spring they bought land, built a cabin and began clearing.

The early playmates of the deceased were Indian boys of an Indian village
about one mile south of his home. The old Potawatomie chief (ShoveHead) was
well known by Mr. Adams as well as other Indians of this tribe, who were
well-known in the early history of this state.

Three sisters, Mrs. Lora Fletcher of Marcellus, Mich., Mrs. I. L. Bates of
Groton, S. D., and Mrs. D. F. Smith of Washington, D. C., a devoted wife,
one daughter, Clara Thornton, and two sons, Frank K. and Horace H. Adams all
of Lawton, survive.

The burial will take place from the home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock.

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Notes by submitter: Mr. Adams died at the age of 82, not 85 as written in 
obituary.

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